• The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1900)

• Strong as Death by Guy de Maupassant

• A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle (1887)

• A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

• The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway

• Swallows and Amazons by Arthur Rasome

• Swann's Way by Marcel Proust

• Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss (1813)

• The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu

• **A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens (1859)

• Tales of Alphonse Daudet by Alphonse Daudet

• The Talisman by Walter Scott (1825)

• The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

• Tartuffe by Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere

• **The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allen Poe (1845)

• **The Tempest by William Shakespeare

• The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte

• Tess of the D'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy

• Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

• Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe

• The Thin Man by Dashiell Hammett

• **The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCollough

• A Thousand Mile Walk To the Gulf by John Muir

• The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas (1844)

• Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book For All and None by Friedrich Nietzche

• Tigers and Traitors by Jules Verne (1880)

• **The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (1895)

• The Tin Drum by Gunter Grass

• Toilers of the Sea by Victor Hugo (1866)

• To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

• Tom Brown's School Days by Thomas Hughes (1856)

• Tom Jones by Henry Fielding

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

• A Town like Alice by Nevil Shute

• A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (1880)

• Travels in Alaska by John Muir

• Travels of Marco Polo by Marco Polo

• Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1883)

• The Trial by Franz Kafka

• Trilogy: Molly, Malone Dies, The Unamable by Samuel Beckett

• The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

• **Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne (1870)

• Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas (1845)

• Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzche

• The Twits by Roald Dahl

• Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

• Typee by Herman Melville (1846)

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• **The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

• Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852)

• Under Two Flags by Ouida (1868)

• Unmodern Observations by Friedrich Nietzche

• The Upanishads (500 BC)

• The Use and Abuse of History by Friedrich Nietzche

• Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray

• Vicky Angel by Jacqueline Wilson

• A Vindication Of The Rights Of Women by Mary Wollstonecraft (1792)

• The Virginian by Owen Wister (1902)

• The Voyage Of The Beagle by Charles Darwin (1839)

• Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

• Walden by Henry David Thoreau

• Walkabout by James Vance Marshall

• **War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

• War of the Jews by Josephus

• **War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (1898)

• Waterloo by Emile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian

• Watership Down by Richard Adams

• The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler

• The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith (1776)

• Westward, Ho! by Charles Kingsley (1855)

• What Is Man? And Other Essays by Mark Twain (1906)

• The White Company by Arthur Conan Doyle (1891)

• White Fang by Jack London (1906)

• Why I Am So Wise by Friedrich Nietzche

• William Tell by Frederick Schiller (1804)

• The Will To Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of all Values by Friedrich Nietzche

• Wild Animals I have known by Ernest Thompson Seton (1898)

• Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

• **Winnie the Pooh by A.A. Milne

• With Fire and Sword by Henry Sienkiewicz (1890)

• The Woman in White by William Wilkie Collins

• The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston

• Won by the Sword by G.A. Henty (1899)

• **The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum (1900)

• The World as Will and Idea by Arthur Schopenhauer

• **Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte (1847)

• The Yosemite by John Muir

• Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzákis

Author Comments:

I have read all the books with a ** before them. It was not until I saw this list that I realized what huge holes were in my reading list. This list does not include the hundreds of science fiction books read, nor hundreds of horror books. It does not inclue every book ever written by Truman Capote and F. Scott Fitzgerald. It des not include the many hundreds of other books in a variety of genre.

I grew up in a small Southern town. My Mom used to read to us from 101 Famous Poems. I loved The Raven so she bought me an Edgar Allen Poe book. I still remember the feeling of reading The Pit and the Pendulum. I was five... That probably explains my unusual life... Reading took me out of that small town and showed me a much broader world. It has been a great joy all through my life. I now have a huge personal library. Many of the unread books in this list are waiting to be read in my library. Now, if there is just enough time... I will continue to increase my mind by reading. Ihave three cancer diagnosis behind me and (like everyone) have no idea how much time I have left. I hope to put my time allotted to good use... reading.